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hnsaifi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

hnsaifi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:09:50 +0000

Hello there. jblz
First thanks for your quick response.
I'm having problem for almost all the countries. I'm seeing 2 or 3 of them in the right manner. I'll try it on different browser and ill post it again.

jblz on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

jblz — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:01:08 +0000

hnsaifi asked:

Why can't I see the detailed and zoom in map when click on a specific country? It says
Requested map does not exist

Hi, hnsaifi,
Does this happen for every country you click on or just a specific one? If so, which country is it? It may be a bug where we map the particular countries to the map regions.

If it's happening for every country you click on, can you please let me know what happens if you try it in another browser?
Thanks!

hnsaifi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

hnsaifi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:46:53 +0000

Why can't I see the detailed and zoom in map when click on a specific country? It says

Requested map does not exist

I'm surfing from Firefox 10.0.
@tandava108
Kashmir of Pakistan's side is also the blackened. Not happened only with India.

tandava108 on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

tandava108 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Its a shame that a company like Google should use recognised international boundaries for everyone except India.

hnsaifi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

hnsaifi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:03:27 +0000

I meant Kashmir.

hnsaifi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

hnsaifi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:02:50 +0000

And I belong to that blackened area :)
I feel much bad when I see world's map. And this one is weird for sure.

tandava108 on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

tandava108 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:49:08 +0000

I agree, it certainly appears to be India that is singled out for this. Looking at other disputed territories, only the Indian ones are marked.

I think there must be some Jihadis in Google

oghmawriteshere on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

oghmawriteshere — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:10:37 +0000

Thank you jblz for the clarification. If it's third party, i don't blame WP. But it seems more than a little irresponsible on your part to use a tool which clearly lacks impartiality, in the long run.

Google may be anti-Indian, but WP need not tag that line.

I saw the Google Geochart thing. On the whole world map, only 4 regions of India are black. That's disgusting.

ashwin12345 on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

ashwin12345 — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:47:14 +0000

So is this restricted to India or other nations also?.

jblz on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

jblz — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:24:21 +0000

Hi, oghmawriteshere & all,
Automattic is most certainly not taking a stance on any territorial disputes in India or elsewhere. As a matter of fact, we never noticed those shaded regions during development.

The visualization is constructed with a third-party charting tool ( Google's Geochart ). Their API documentation offers no method of affecting territory borders.

If you'd like to tinker with the kind of code we're using, check out this jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/QqR6T/

Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for bringing these implications to light.

Best,
~Jeff

landscapelover on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

landscapelover — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:57:51 +0000

Yup, I blog from Delhi and get lots of Indian visitors - and my stats map very clearly shows Kashmir & Jammu and AP as hatched areas. On a cursory exam of other countries with disputed areas, I couldn't find any other hatching.

Can macmanx or another staff member explain what is going on?

teamoyeniyi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

teamoyeniyi — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:21:38 +0000

Correction - last night it was not there - NOW mine looks like yours. That is only what I can term WEIRD.

teamoyeniyi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

teamoyeniyi — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:19:55 +0000

I could zoom, Jen - I didn't see what you saw.

oghmawriteshere on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

oghmawriteshere — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:40:51 +0000

I have a screenshot of what i see here;

Screenshot

Make what you want of it. If Aksai Chin and AP are in black because of Chinese claims, then Tibet should be too.

macmanx on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

macmanx — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:25:03 +0000

Color is assigned by number of views. The more views you have from a country, the redder it is.

More info: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/where-in-the-world/

justjennifer on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

justjennifer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:21:10 +0000

If you are on the summaries page, mouse over any country and it will zoom the area.

Helpful screenshot

teamoyeniyi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

teamoyeniyi — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:12:14 +0000

I still do not see that on mine, zooming in or not.

justjennifer on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

justjennifer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:51:36 +0000

OK-now I see what you mean. "Disputed areas" do appear to be lined and not solid colors. Since some areas are so small, it required zooming in.

justjennifer on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

justjennifer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:46:42 +0000

New Stats feature! Thanks for pointing that out. And the map colors appear to be a "heat map" meaning the more intense the color, the higher the number of visits from that place.

FWIW-I see no "black" areas at all on my map(s). All countries with no visitors show grey (too many of those!), so a screenshot of what you are seeing would certainly assist.

oghmawriteshere on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

oghmawriteshere — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:33:53 +0000

Site Stats has a panel, views by country. Click 'summaries' I see India red with the 4 aforementioned areas in black.

I bear no issue if every other disputed territory in the word is black.

justjennifer on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

justjennifer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:27:00 +0000

Exactly what map are you talking about?

The only map I see on the WordPress.com stats page is entirely black and dark blue, with points of white, green and yellow to indicate new posts, comments and likes.

jafrianews on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

jafrianews — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:01:44 +0000

Word press has done a great thing , we should not politicize it , Rather we should ask Word Press to give the full features of Analytics For thier Blogs ,
As I was very disturbed by not getting the complete analytic s of My , so I was about to change the server of My Blog to some other site , which offer such features.
It is a good sign that the Word Press team is Upgrading its site, to keep the Blogs running on their site, then the People start shifting their Blogs to some better sites, with More facilities.

teamoyeniyi on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

teamoyeniyi — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0000

India is all one color on my map. Dark orange.

oghmawriteshere on "Site stats: Disputed areas in country maps"

oghmawriteshere — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:29:29 +0000

I see that the site stats page is updated to show hits by country on a map. India has 4 back areas: 3 of Kashmir and 1 of Arunachal Pradesh. I presume this is done for the sake of the 'disputed territories' concern.

In that case do we see the Palestine in black? Do we see Tibet in black? What about territorial disputes regarding the Russian federation, the rest of the Middle East, the Falkland Islands, Kosovo, the Sudan, etc?

I would like to know whether WordPress is taking a stand on these issues or simply bowing down to territorial interests of major world powers.